Autism

I'll try to keep it short. These are the things I love doing, even though I sometimes don't have the energy for any of it, except lying in my bed. Being autistic can be quite exhausting.

...tinkering with alternative operating systems for notebooks and smarties.

...watching Star Trek - grew up with it and just don't get tired of (re-)watching. My fav is Voyager.

...playing video games - my favs are Loz - Breath of the Wild and Horizon - Zero Dawn

...reading - mainly SF, fantasy, and non-fic. My fav authors are Stephen Baxter, Robin Hobb, and Henry David Thorau.

...strength training - one of my rooms was turned into a training room.

...cycling - I own an almost 20 years old Specialized Rockhopper and prefer day trips.

...travelling and hiking with my GF - mainly in remote areas such as Lapland for example.

... lying in my bed, since it is the one place with the least sensory triggers.

I'm in a space of flux right now. I once could tell you everything on the face of this planet about dogs, I really got into the AKC. Which is funny because I didn't have a dog myself. I still talk dogs, with my mother. Who really loves them herself (well a certain type) and think maybe my interests might have been influenced by hers? Not sure.

There was a time when I could tell you the price of everything in the store, down to the penny. But prices fluctuate so much nowadays. And there really isn't much point to this "super power." I think I picked it up so that I could always budget, and it really helped me fly for a long time. Now I soft-budget instead and guesstimate based off of average prices of things in relation to their worth to my being.

I am super obsessed with mustalids and am pretty sure they are god's gift to the world. I've been known to crack a fact or two at (and yeah, I mean at here sadly) people at random because they jazz me up so hard.

I feel a swing back into my one true love, illustration. I am not sure where this is going right now, but I have been dreaming of hitting up a series. That I have been unraveling as I sleep (literally in my dreams - I can have a think when I sleep) about how I want to go about it. Some cool folk on here showed me a new art program and I wanna give it a go with a series and see how it turns out. I want it to be convoluted, uncomfortable, and in the style/surrounding my interests of some of my favorite illustrators. I have been smooshing and smashings bits together and I am about to move on it. So pretty excited there.

Here's to hoping you guys share yours =)

Analyzing stuff (especially code) down to the last detail on that layer of abstraction. I can tell you one fact about how bad MCreator generated code is, and a lot more about random code bugs (often minecraft related).

The local train line i use nearly daily during the semester.

A bit less reading manga and watching anime.

I also play a bit of osu.

But generally nearly everything that is some kind of intrinsic relation (not names or model numbers but how something works etc.) is interesting for me.

Pro wrestling, specifically AEW, NXT and Mystery Wrestling. I'm a sucker for good comedy wrestling, and Chuck Taylor is my favorite male wrestler (even though he had to mostly retire this year). https://youtu.be/zlAHrHL_FCc?si=kaj76TB8WZP78nSj links to one of Chuck's best spots, the BOLA grenade!

Rabbits. Rabbits are incredible. They're not rodents even though their teeth continue growing throughout their lives, and they have no paw pads. They're basically like having tiny cuddly fuzzy deer or horses in your house without the poop issues.

Pokemon first gen, particularly Jigglypuff and her evolution family including Scream Tail. I found out today that Rachael Lillis, the original anime voice of Jigglypuff (and Misty, and Jessie) passed away this weekend and I'm a little heartbroken.

I'm also crazy about rogue-likes and rogue-lites, and I can't wait for Hades 2 to officially release 😁

I'm really into radio tech (licensed amateur operator), tabletop RPGs, video games, and fictional religions.

Fermenting everything. I have made beer shout out [email protected] and sourdough bread for years. I just started a ginger bug to make me own sodas and have made jalapeno pickles for the first time. Next on my list is hot sauce.

• Video Games Mostly those that allow me to tinker or engineer or just optimize from a lot of options available to the player. Minecraft, especially with the Create Mod, is a great example. I can engineer to my heart's content with it. Space Engineers is one that if feels like I should love it but I have a hard time getting into it.
• Leftist Political Ideologies Mostly Marxism and it's sub-groups but also Anarcho-Communism as well. This includes the history of attempts at those systems and modern examples. Sometimes this gets frustrating when I encounter an unironic use of a wholly, or almost wholly, false point being brought out again. Unfortunately some of the big names have writing styles so dry they could sap the moisture from the Atlantic.
• World History in general Especially early to mid modern history and ancient history. Military history from any point in time is also pretty enjoyable to me. Sometimes it's frustrating like learning that a major problem of today was almost wholly caused by one person in the past having a particular preference for X over Y (ex Ford preferring internal combustion for his cars over battery power).
• Urban Design I like learning about what is and isn't effective in terms of how to build places that work for people. What makes places safer or more dangerous, how to reduce stress through little design tricks, and how places can be a net positive for the wider area they're in. Also trains on both large and small scale.
• Computer Programming/IT Out of all my interests this is the one I'm perusing as something I could have a job doing. Working with computers strikes a nice balance between rules being clear and exact and being open-ended enough to allow for creative solutions. Also learned I have a strong preference for C++ over Javascript. That may be because I learned C++ first and Javascript is a lot more typing intensive to do simple things.

I'm into nail art, Seinfeld and watching my cats destroy my house... and I usually enjoy them all at once.

Audhd here, so way too many interests to list (short list here: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Murdoc). But my biggest long-standing one is called Technocracy. Not how the word gets used most of the time today, but rather the proposed sustainable and post-scarcity economic system devised in the 1920s. Not only is it just interesting from being a novel and well-designed system, but it deals with so many important issues like poverty, environmentalism, sexism, racism, crime, and all in an objective, hard scientific way (i.e. not "political science"). All that science and progressivism (from 100 years ago too!) just delights my autistic brain no end. Here's my attempt to make the topic more accessible to the modern audience: https://technate.org/tiki-index.php

• Games (video, board, sports; if it's a game, I'm into it)
• Comedy
• Writing

And that's pretty much it.